Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 389.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 08:53:47 +0100
From: Randall Pierce <rpierce@jsucc.jsu.edu>
Subject: Jascha Kessler and Science Fiction
Mr. Kessler's observations about the rise of technology were very
interesting. This leads me to ask Mr. Kessler if the thinks the
challenge and response theory of "human progress" is the preeminent one
in human develpment. Although technology and economics play a very
important part in human development, I would not descry the place that
psychology, both "normal' and "abnormal" have had. I would think that
the role of hyper-text technology will make available so many "obscure"
works which have seldom seen the light of day. Some of these works have
not been made generally available due to the outre nature of the
material, but because of the ability of modern information technology
to make so much so generally available to great numbers of
researchers, I wonder how many "cognitive connections" can be made by
synthesizing seemingly disparate bodies of information? Randall
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